Where is "hosts" file for apache https?

[Murray Eisenberg]

What's the advantage of using a bunch of conf files, one for each virtual host, over just putting blocks for them in httpd-vhosts.conf with corresponding entries in /etc/hosts ?

Or does using the separate conf files mean I don't have to list each virtual host again in /etc/hosts ?

(The "good news" about apache server is allowing so many ways to do things; the "bad news" is the same thing!)

On Feb 28, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Mikel King <mikel.king at olivent.com> wrote:

> 	For your sanity's sake if you intend on host multiple ghosts you may wish to go with something more along the lines of adding this line to the end of your httpd.conf Include conf/sites/*.conf. Rmember to mkdir -p conf/sites if it does not already exist. Then you would create a separate conf file for each host. I usually opt for something along the lines of host_domain_tld.conf to make it easy to distinguish which host is in which file. Pretty much everything else you mentioned is standard dev practice.
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> On Feb 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do I correctly understand how to get virtual hosts to work with apache2 from macports?
>> 
>>  (1) In httpd.conf, uncomment "#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf".
>> 
>>  (2) Edit file /opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf so as to set the name and DocumentRoot for each VirualHost (and create the corresponding folder target for each DocumentRoot). 
>> 
>>  (3) Edit file /etc/hosts to include each virtual host. Specifically, if all the virtual hosts are going to be strictly for local use, add to /etc/hosts entries of the form:
>> 
>> 
>>      127.0.0.1    virtual-hot-name
>> 
>> I ask this because docs I've come across for configuring macport's apache2 port, e.g.,
>> 
>>  http://muddledramblings.com/rumblings-from-the-secret-labs/lamp-server-from-scratch-with-macports/
>> 
>> don't mention setp (3).

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